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Friday, 13 July 2012

INKJET OR TONER, WHICH IS THE BEST PRINTER FOR YOU?

What are the pros and
cons of either?

When you are
in the market to buy a printer, the biggest decision is whether to purchase an
inkjet or a toner laser. Both types of printers can offer you features such as
wireless printing, colour, multi function capability, etc.

People will
tell you that a toner printer has better quality, but that is an over
generalisation. There are many inkjet printers that produce photo image quality
second to none, and some toners that don’t focus completely on quality, with
consideration for other factors such as keeping prices down considered more
important.

Probably the
most important consideration as to which printer is the best for you, is the quantity of printing you require.

The average
inkjet cartridge stores a rated 200 –
300 pages of ink. But at a 5% yield, or approx. one to two paragraphs a page,
that ‘ai’nt a real lot of grunt’. In reality , obviously depending upon your
usage, that amounts to probably about 100 printed pages. And coloureds are less
but they usually share the workload with the other colours and the black.

Toner
cartridges, on the other hand, rarely have a capacity of less than 1,000 pages,
and go on up from there.

Lets take a
comparison of the two different capacity & per page printing costs of an
inkjet & a toner from the same supplier, Brother. Each printer is a popular
model, and randomly selected

The Inkjet in
this case is the Brother MFC-J430W/J432W/J625D/J825DWW. The cartridge ( the LC40B (genuine) has a
cost of $24.73 (prices supplied by ABC Print Supplies) and is calculated at
printing 300 pages. The cost per page is 8.24
cents.

The
laser/toner printer is the Brother HL2140/HL2142/HL2150N, with a cartridge, the TN2150, at a cost
of $75.50 (genuine), and a cartridge capacity of 2,600 pages (standard). The cost per
page is therefore 2.9cents.

Without going
into the overall cost of the printer + page usage, it s obvious that if you are
printing higher volumes, then the toner printer is the one for you. However the
inkjet printer in this case retails at less than $100.

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